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“Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.”
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“The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.”
Source : Source: screenrant.com
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“I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.”
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“Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.”
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“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”
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“A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.”
Source : "Why do Americans still dislike atheists?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.
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“It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.”
Source : John William De Forest (1859). “Seacliff; Or, The Mystery of the Westervelts”, p.41
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“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”